GNU bug report logs - #36784
GnuPG lacks a default pinentry program

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan <at> disroot.org>

Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:27:02 UTC

Severity: important

Merged with 24076, 37266

Done: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan <at> disroot.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Cannot generate key pair with GnuPG
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 06:00:44 -0400

Hello Guix!

The current gnupg package in guix has "pinentry" as a missing
dependency.

Because of this, GnuPG throws the following error upon attempting to
generate key pairs:

gpg: agent_genkey failed: No pinentry
gpg: key generation failed: No pinentry

So it appears, unless the above mentioned dependency issue is fixed,
one cannot create gpg key pairs. :(

Regards,
RG.
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